General Gaming Chat

[Butters]

Square Enix Is Done With PlayStation Exclusivity After Profit Drop

Square Enix wants an open relationship. Even though Square Enix and Sony’s partnership goes back years, something has to change for the publisher,

www.forbes.com

I hope this means FF16 and the 7 remakes come to xbox

 

[Deadd2009]

Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand And Rights To 200+ Titles

Deal "ends the longest-running console war in history"

www.nintendolife.com

 

[Loochquake]

Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16 Billion Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam

Rumors have recently surfaced suggesting that Microsoft is considering a significant acquisition bid valued at approximately $16 billion for Valve Corporation, the entity behind major gaming franchises such as Half-Life and Portal, and operator of the Steam Store, the leading digital...

www.guru3d.com

...oh fuck no, please don't.

 

[Chris]

Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16 Billion Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam

Rumors have recently surfaced suggesting that Microsoft is considering a significant acquisition bid valued at approximately $16 billion for Valve Corporation, the entity behind major gaming franchises such as Half-Life and Portal, and operator of the Steam Store, the leading digital...

www.guru3d.com

...oh fuck no, please don't.

We were always on borrowed time really, it could never last

 

[Butters]

If they purchased Activision Blizzard for like 68 million I doubt Valve is going for that low since it would include Steam but it's possible.

The rumors are that Xbox wants to be able to have steam games on their next console and to entice PC players to buy their console and buying Valve would definitely do it.

 

[Loochquake]

The mindset is just all wrong though. This is like if a country was a resource from another country and instead of thinking about a trade or other kind of deal, they immediately go to "We gonna take the whole country."

I wish I could just think that PC players wouldn't be that stupid, to immediately run buying XBoxes, just because Steam's gonna be available on it... but I know how it is.

 

[R-Troop]

Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16 Billion Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam

Rumors have recently surfaced suggesting that Microsoft is considering a significant acquisition bid valued at approximately $16 billion for Valve Corporation, the entity behind major gaming franchises such as Half-Life and Portal, and operator of the Steam Store, the leading digital...

www.guru3d.com

...oh fuck no, please don't.

If it means Portal 3 then thank Jesus.

 

[Loochquake]

Yea, Portal 3 & Half-Life 3 incoming


...just not made by the people you'd want to make it.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Yeah no, Gabe Newell would never seriously offer a deal like that, especially considering Steam on its own nets Valve billions of dollars in revenue. It'd be a short-term gain for a company that doesn't need to do anything to continue to prove that by virtue of its business model continues to lead the gaming industry.

 

[Barry Poppins]

If it means Portal 3 then thank Jesus.

No, monopolies are fucking bad lmao

 

[Butters]

Isn't steam basically a PC monopoly already?

 

[Barry Poppins]

Isn't steam basically a PC monopoly already?

They own the market share but they aren't actively trying to put GOG, Epic Games, or EA Launcher out of business on PC.

 

[Hoss]

 

[Loochquake]

For those who like Speedruns and GTA (and GTA-like games like RDR, Driv3r, Sleeping Dogs etc) ... they dropped all the runs from this year's GTA Marathon on their YouTube channel today.

GTA Marathon

Welcome to the official YouTube channel of the GTA Speedrunning Community. Stay tuned for our content and videos from our Twitch channel as well as stuff unique to YouTube!

www.youtube.com

Watch stuff like

GTA III Tightened Thrice (Hard difficulty mod)

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GTA Vice City 100%

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Red Dead Redemption 2 Any% (No Checkpoint Skips)

Spoiler

...and so many more different types of runs.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Sim game Life By You canceled after 3 early access delays

An early access period was scheduled for June

www.polygon.com

Paradox, come on, man!